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Quote from Solon,


"We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured
by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been."


By:

Solon (more quotes by Solon or books by/about Solon)


(c.638 BC-558 BC) Athenian statesman, lawmaker, Lyric poet, renowned as a founding father of the Athenian polis, one of the Seven Sages of Greece

Date:

594 B.C.

Source:

when asked how social justice could be achieved in Athens

Categories:

Apathy, Conscience, Dissent, Ethics, Justice, Oppression, Persecution, Wisdom

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